Chinese Firm Behind Friday's Internet Outage

Internet-connected CCTV cameras made by a Chinese firm, Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology were infected with malware that allowed hackers to takeover "tens of millions" of devices and launch the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks which brought the internet across much of the US, and especially on the east coast, to a virtual crawl for hours on Friday.

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((they)) are desperately trying to whitewash it as something other than a cyber-warfare attack.

wired.com/story/friday-comcast-outage-cut-fiber/

whoah, so this is the power of the internet of shit...

Who's attacking who?

No body nose, boss.

youtube.com/watch?v=ewFBuYHldeY

Is that why fucking reCaptcha has been such a pain in the ass, to mitigate the attack? Is it over?

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it was related to something greater than just a fuck up.

Someone was probably just making a point. "War is the continuation of politics by other means." --Carl von Clausewitz, "On War"

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Headline ripped from old news

Did they get the band back together for "a strategic application of surgical wrath"?

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Nice source Jow Forumstard

>tfw google constantly spiders Jow Forums

Anything is possible.

>tfw you forget image

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>Anything is possible.
lol this is the basis of conservative "facts"

>wired.com/story/friday-comcast-outage-cut-fiber/
politico.com/story/2017/06/01/russia-spies-espionage-trump-239003

I'm quite liberal

THIS THREAD IS A HOAX. DO NOT BELIEVE ANYTHING POSTED HERE. THE PERPETRATORS ARE TRYING TO START A WAR BETWEEN GOOGLE, COMCAST, Jow Forums AND CHINA!

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fortune.com/2016/10/24/china-cyberattack-webcams-xiongmai/

>It said the biggest issue was users not changing default passwords, adding that, overall, its products were well protected from cyber security breaches.
What is wrong with the Chinese

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uh, aside note, with all the internet devices now how the fuck is the root dns servers not crashing left and right due to overloads?

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Fucking ricefarmers.

Your commie has no regard for human life, not even his own.

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Quite liberal in your intepretation of facts I see.